Work is a four-letter word

“Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance…”

Nancy Pelosi gets all the credit for my recent epiphany. I’ve wrestled with this for some time, but my path is now clear. I will quit my day job and follow my passion: Song writing.

How liberating it will be not to worry about building my company, perform entertainment gigs or meet newspaper column deadlines! Oh, how I have longed to be able to pen beautiful lyrics with abandon, freed from job constraints and fiscal obligation! At last I, and millions of Americans, can release our inner artistic talents and share them, unhindered, with all of humanity.

My friends, here’s yet another epiphany: Nancy Pelosi is whacko. And she is one of the top political leaders of the Democratic Party, articulating those strange liberal notions of entitlement without honor, payment without production and dependence without guilt.

Entangled in the sticky net of the nation’s protracted recession, binding themselves ever more tightly with restraints fashioned from twisted economic policy, they choose to convince us that plight is desirable and the taste of bitterness is actually sweet.

“Work” is a four letter word with which we need not concern ourselves. It is a word tied to “earnings” — and earnings is the ingredient of economic inequality. It is a word tied to “job” — and job is associated with stature and class, a driver of social injustice.

When the Congressional Budget Office reported that Obamacare will cause the loss of some 2.5 million jobs, the Democrats had no choice but to change the dialog. Who needs a job? People will have freedom to sit on a beach and count clouds. No worries.

Besides, they claim, the CBO figures are not correct. Yet, illegally, the president has delayed implementation of the employer mandate to cover full-time workers until after the elections, just in case millions of jobs happen to start disappearing.

With Democratic policies obstructing employment and causing catastrophic job loss, it isn’t surprising that they focus on the one tiny corner available: Minimum wages. No need for those at the bottom of the earnings scale to work two or three jobs — the pay level can simply be raised so all can be liberated.

As one wise little sister expressed it, “Since they completely fouled up the job market, they want to make minimum wage jobs seem like careers.” The only problem is, college grads across this nation stuck in that position aren’t buying it.

Rather than acknowledge the evidence as it unfolds before their eyes, this administration continues to obscure the truth. There will be no reevaluation of a flawed strategic vision — only more shifts in tactics, delays and questionable rewrites of law on the fly. This party has abandoned working on behalf of the people’s best interests and has instead engaged in a monumental effort to save face.

With no clue as to how to create jobs, the only alternative is to vilify jobs — and those who do create them.

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How is raising the minimum wage going to "get people out of poverty immediately?" as Obama exclaimed. When you make more money the government takes more money in taxes, that is a fact. So if you are currently making 8.00 an hour and you get a raise to 10.00 an hour. Your tax deduction is higher so you are still making closer to 8.00 an hour. It happened when whacko Pelosi raised the minimum wage in 2009 which did not get people out of poverty.